Microsoft has spent years teaching AI to play Minecraft, but it's apparently making enough progress that the game needs very little human involvement. Semafor sources claim Microsoft has produced an ...

UPDATE: Microsoft has clarified that Minecraft developer Mojang currently has no intention of incorporating generative artificial intelligence into its game development process. The headline of this ...

Why it matters: Minecraft may not sound like an important tool that supports advanced AI research. After all, what could possibly be so important about teaching a machine to play a sandbox game ...